AGENTIC AI, DATA, AND DECISIONS

Credit Hours: 1.5 · Graduate

Companies are increasingly using generative AI to let ordinary employees get at data and analyze it — work that used to require a specialized analytics team. This course is about doing that work and about designing the systems that let others in an organization do it. Students analyze data with AI-written code, build dashboards that answer questions asked in plain English, connect AI tools to company databases and other business systems, and build AI assistants tailored to a particular job. The course also covers what goes wrong: the ways these systems can be manipulated into leaking data, and the controls that limit what an AI agent is allowed to do. Later sessions apply the same methods to forecasting, optimization, and simulation. All instruction is hands-on, using cloud-hosted data systems built for the course. No programming background is expected. Recommended Prerequisite(s): MGMT 665